Michael Hordern
Biography
Sir Michael Murray Hordern (3 October 1911 – 2 May 1995) was an English actor, knighted in 1983 for his services to the theatre, which stretched back to before the Second World War.
Known For
The Wednesday Play
1964
The Wednesday Play
1964
Wogan
1982
American Playhouse
1982
Screen Two
1985
Screen Two
1985
Playhouse
1974
Film '72
1971
Inspector Morse
1987
Omnibus
1967
Omnibus
1967
Omnibus
1967
Filmography
The Wednesday Play
as Sir Jocelyn Symonds · 1964
The Wednesday Play
as Gen. Kokoshkin, Chief of Police · 1964
Wogan
as Self · 1982
American Playhouse
as Lord McLaidlaw · 1982
Screen Two
as Lord Langland · 1985
Screen Two
as Godfrey Colston · 1985
Playhouse
as Patient · 1974
Film '72
as Self · 1971
Inspector Morse
as Doctor Starkie · 1987
Omnibus
as Self · 1967
Omnibus
as Self - Narrator (voice) · 1967
Omnibus
as Professor Parkins · 1967
BBC Play of the Month
as Mr. Posket · 1965
BBC Play of the Month
as God · 1965
BBC Play of the Month
as The Devil · 1965
BBC Play of the Month
as Tartuffe · 1965
BBC Play of the Month
as Lear · 1965
Tales of the Unexpected
as Cyril Bixby · 1979
Sunday Night Theatre
as Epilogue spoken by (voice) · 1950
Sunday Night Theatre
as Jacques · 1950
Sunday Night Theatre
as Hugh Wigmore · 1950
Sunday Night Theatre
as Trigorin · 1950
Sunday Night Theatre
as General Parmenion · 1950
Sunday Night Theatre
as Christopher Williams · 1950
Sunday Night Theatre
as Major Booth Voysey · 1950
Sunday Night Theatre
as Rev. James Mavor Morell · 1950
Sunday Night Theatre
as Shylock · 1950
Sunday Night Theatre
as Maurice Lammering · 1950
Theatre Night
as Sir William Gower · 1985
The BBC Television Shakespeare
as Capulet · 1978
The BBC Television Shakespeare
as Prospero · 1978
The BBC Television Shakespeare
as Lafeu · 1978
Lovejoy
as Wilfred Shotley · 1986
Sunday-Night Play
as Walter Ormund · 1960
Shōgun
as Friar Domingo · 1980
Daytime Live
· 1987
Labyrinth
as The Wiseman (voice) · 1986
Espionage
as Minister · 1963
The Wonderful World of Disney
as Squire Banks · 1954
The Wind in the Willows
as Badger (voice) · 1984
Where Eagles Dare
as Adm. Rolland · 1968
Barry Lyndon
as Narrator (voice) · 1975
Story Parade
as Anatol Stiller · 1964
Festival
as Sir Augustus Thwaites · 1963
Chillers
as Colonel Eddie Phelps · 1990
Detective
as Detective Inspector Rason · 1964
Fall of Eagles
as Narrator · 1974
Fall of Eagles
as Narrator (voice) · 1974
A Ghost Story for Christmas
as Professor Parkins · 1971
Cleopatra
as Cicero · 1963
Paradise Postponed
as Rev. Simeon Simcox · 1986
Paddington
as Narrator · 1976
The Three Musketeers
as Treville (voice) · 1973
Gandhi
as Sir George Hodge · 1982
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
as Prof. Ainslie Grey · 1967
Middlemarch
as Peter Featherstone · 1994
Watership Down
as Frith (voice) · 1978
El Cid
as Don Diego · 1961
Perfect Scoundrels
as Sir Norman · 1990
Young Sherlock Holmes
as Older Watson (voice) · 1985
The Taming of the Shrew
as Baptista · 1967
Alexander the Great
as Demosthenes · 1956
Edward the Seventh
as W. E. Gladstone · 1975
Juggernaut
as Mr. Baker · 1974
Paddington Bear
as Narrator · 1976
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Banquo · 1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Ben Weatherstaff · 1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Cardinal Barberini, later Pope Urban VIII · 1951
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
as Ashe · 1965
Cast a Giant Shadow
as British Ambassador · 1966
Armchair Theatre
as Det. Supt. Coates · 1956
Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow
as Squire Thomas Banks · 1963
Scrooge
as Jacob Marley · 1951
Lady Jane
as Dr. Feckenham · 1986
Anne of the Thousand Days
as Thomas Boleyn · 1969
Six Dates with Barker
as Arch Funster · 1971
The History Man
as Professor Marvin · 1981
Sink the Bismarck!
as Admiral Sir John Tovey, Commander-in-Chief - 'King George' · 1960
Summer Season
as The Storyteller · 1985
The MacKintosh Man
as Brown · 1973
Theatre of Blood
as George Maxwell · 1973
Yellowbeard
as Dr. Gilpin · 1983
The Man Who Never Was
as Gen. Coburn · 1956
Khartoum
as Lord Granville · 1966
The Yellow Rolls-Royce
as Harnsworth · 1964
The Medusa Touch
as Atropos - Fortune Teller · 1978
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
as Senex · 1966
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
as Mock Turtle · 1972
The V.I.P.s
as Airport Director · 1963
Freddie As F.R.O.7.
as King (voice) · 1992
The Green Man
as Gramps · 1990
Oliver Twist
as Mr. Brownlow · 1982
Lucky Lady
as Captain Rockwell · 1975
The Slipper and the Rose
as King · 1976
Genghis Khan
as Geen · 1965
The Bed Sitting Room
as Bules Martin · 1969
The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh
as Squire Banks · 1964
Storm Over the Nile
as General Faversham · 1955
The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men
as Scathelock · 1952
Train of Events
as First Plain Clothes Man · 1949
How I Won the War
as Grapple · 1967
Ivanhoe
as Cedric · 1982
The Dark Avenger
as King Edward · 1955
I Was Monty's Double
as Governor of Gibralter · 1958
Now Voyager
as The Old Man · 1985
Oh, Mr. Toad
as Badger · 1990
The Possession of Joel Delaney
as Justin · 1972
I'll Never Forget What's'isname
as Headmaster · 1967
Demons of the Mind
as Priest · 1972
The Little Match Girl
as Himself - Introduction · 1986
The Secret World of Polly Flint
as Narrator · 1987
The Secret Garden
as Ben Weatherstaff · 1987
Passport to Pimlico
as Bashford · 1949
The Pied Piper
as Melius, Alchemist · 1972
Walt Disney Treasures - Dr. Syn: The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh
as Squire Thomas Banks (archive footage) · 2008
Girl in the News
as Assistant Prosecuting Counsel (Uncredited) · 1940
Danny the Champion of the World
as Lord Claybury · 1989
Tall Stories
· 1971
A Very Open Prison
as Lord Langland · 1995
Romeo and Juliet
as Capulet · 1978
Diamond Skulls
as Lord Crewne · 1990
The Card
as Bank Manager · 1952
The Dog It Was That Died
as George · 1989
The Missionary
as Slatterthewaite/Narrator · 1982
Beauty and the Beast
as Monsieur Du Blois (voice) · 1992
The Wildcats of St Trinian's
as Sir Charles Hackforth · 1980
Man in the Moon
as Dr. Davidson · 1960
Cakes and Ale
as Willie Ashenden · 1976
The Jokers
as Sir Matthew · 1967
Prudence and the Pill
as Dr. Morley (uncredited) · 1968
The Wind in the Willows
as Badger · 1983
The Old Curiosity Shop
as Edward Trent · 1975
The Trouble with Spies
as Jason Locke · 1987
Lollipop Children's Favourites - Volume 1
as Badger (voice) · 1989
Joseph Andrews
as Parson Adams · 1977
Truckers
as The Abbot (voice) · 1992
Children's Favourites - Volume 1
as Badger (voice) · 1988
The Heart of the Matter
as Commissioner · 1953
Royal Flash
as Headmaster · 1975
The Night My Number Came Up
as Lindsay · 1955
A Christmas Carol
as Marley's Ghost (voice) · 1971
Scoop
as Uncle Theodor · 1987
The Secret World of Polly Flint
as Narrator · 1987
School for Secrets
as Lt. Cmdr. Lowther · 1946
Portrait from Life
as Johnson · 1948
Paddington Bear
as Narrator / All · 1976
Mine Own Executioner
as Co-Counsel at Inquest · 1947
The Zany Adventures of Robin Hood
as Psychoanalyst · 1984
All's Well That Ends Well
as Lafeu · 1981
Ending Up
as George · 1989
The Chester Mystery Plays
as God · 1976
Morning Departure
as Commander Gates · 1946
More Children's Holiday Favourites
as Badger (voice) · 1990
A Christmas Carol
as Ebenezer Scrooge · 1977
I Accuse!
as Prosecutor at Second Dreyfus Trial · 1958
The Magic Box
as Official Receiver · 1952
Comrades
as Mr. Pitt · 1987
The Hour of 13
as Herbert Frensham · 1952
Moment of Danger
as Inspector Farrell · 1960
Up Pompeii
as Ludicrus Sextus · 1971
The Baby and the Battleship
as Capt. Hugh · 1956
Tom Brown's Schooldays
as Wilkes · 1951
The Constant Husband
as The Judge · 1955
The Wind in the Willows: A Tale of Two Toads
as Badger (voice) · 1989
A Girl Must Live
· 1939
Some Will, Some Won't
as Denniston Russell · 1970
Futtocks End
as The Butler · 1970
Girls at Sea
as Admiral Reginald Victor Hewitt · 1958
King Lear
as King Lear · 1982
No Time for Tears
as Surgeon · 1957
A Girl in a Million
as Divorce Counsel · 1946
Good-Time Girl
as Seddon · 1948
The Spanish Gardener
as Harrington Brande · 1956
Group Madness
as Self / Dr. Gilpin · 1983
A Crack in the Ice
as The Storyteller · 1985
Memento Mori
as Godfrey Colston · 1992
Nightbeat
as Police Training Officer · 1947
Gauguin the Savage
as Durand-Huel · 1980
You Know What Sailors Are
· 1954
The Spaniard's Curse
as Judge Manton · 1958
Lollipop Children's Favourites - Volume 2
as Badger (voice) · 1989
Trio
as Vicar · 1950
Highly Dangerous
as Lab Director Owens · 1950
You're All Right, How Am I?
as Patient · 1981
Windom's Way
as Patterson · 1957
Flesh and Blood
as Webster · 1951
Personal Affair
as Headmaster Griffith · 1953
Whistle and I'll Come to You
as Professor Parkins · 1968
The Fool
as Mr. Tatham · 1990
Girl Stroke Boy
as George Mason · 1971
Macbeth
as Banquo · 1964
England Made Me
as F. Minty · 1973
Band Waggon
as (uncredited) · 1940
The Tempest
as Prospero · 1980
Paddington Goes to School
· 1986
Paddington Bear Goes to the Movies
as Narrator (voice) · 1980
Grand National Night
as Inspector Ayling · 1953
More Children's Summer Stories
as Badger (voice) · 1989
Street Corner
as Insp. Heron · 1953
The Talking Parcel
as Oswald, the Sea Serpent · 1978
Svengali
as Billy's Uncle · 1954
The Square
as The Man · 1961
Back to Back
· 1959
The Astonished Heart
as Ernest · 1950
The Wind in the Willows: Winter Tales
as Badger (voice) · 1986
Paddington Bear's Alphabet Treasure Hunt
as Narrator · 1993
Clash of Loyalties
as Narrator · 1983
The Small Voice
as Dr. Mennell · 1948
The Years Between
as Member of Parliament (uncredited) · 1946
The Dock Brief
as Morgenhall · 1957
King Lear
as King Lear · 1975
Suspicion
as Lord McLaidlaw · 1987
Forbidden Cargo
as Director of Customs · 1954
Tonight in Britain
as Self · 1954
The Christmas Collection
as Badger (voice) · 1992
Cymbeline
as Jupiter · 1983
Pacific Destiny
as Resident Commissioner · 1956
The Beachcomber
as The Headman · 1954
Paddington's Birthday Bonanza
as Narrator · 1986
Rebecca
as Maxim de Winter · 1947
Paradise Postponed
as Simeon Simcox · 1986
The Spirit of Cheshire
· 1980
Turner
as Reads recollections · 1966